Garfagnana Chairart originated in Fosciandora from within the small village of Treppignana. It was launched in 2010 with the intention of encouraging creative participation locally for artists and also for those who had no previous experience of participation in public art events

Over the past decade we have published many articles about Chairart (they can be seen here) – at the very start of the project it was 20 white chairs and 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. This year once again, the chairs are back in Barga as this week they have moved […]

Garfagnana Chairart originated in Fosciandora from within the small village of Treppignana. It was launched in 2010 with the intention of encouraging creative participation locally for artists and also for those who had no previous experience of participation in public art events

Over the past decade we have published many articles about Chairart (they can be seen here) – at the very start of the project it was 20 white chairs and 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. To date there has been a total of 149 participants and 255 artifacts have been produced […]

Garfagnana Chairart originated in Fosciandora from within the small village of Treppignana. It was launched in 2010 with the intention of encouraging creative participation locally for artists and also for those who had no previous experience of participation in public art events

Over the past 6 years we have published many articles about Chairart (they can be seen here) – at the very start of the project it was 20 white chairs and 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. In 2015 Chairart celebrated its 6th year since inception. To date there has been a total […]

Garfagnana Chairart originated in Fosciandora from within the small village of Treppignana. It was launched in 2010 with the intention of encouraging creative participation locally for artists and also for those who had no previous experience of participation in public art events

Over the past 7 years we have published many articles about Chairart (they can be seen here) – 20 white chairs and the 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. In 2015 Chairart has celebrated its 6th year since inception. To date there has been a total of 149 participants and 255 […]

the exhibition was probably be the most photographed art exhibition held in Barga this year.

Over the past four years we have published numerous articles about Chairart (articles here and here ) – 20 white chairs and the 20 possibilities to decorate the chairs by 20 different people. This year’s Chairart project started in Treppignana in August and then moved onto Roccalberti (Camporgiano) and Castelnuovo before finally arriving here in Barga Each year the number of participating artists […]

the largest exhibition of decorated chairs as 118 chairs arrive in Barga

The wonderful summer weather that we have been enjoying for the past couple of months has finally disappeared and we woke up this morning to grey overcast skies and a temperature drop of almost 8 degrees. By ten o’ clock it was raining and it continued to rain on and off all day. The perfect […]

Chairart 2013 started in earnest this afternoon as the participating artists brought their finished chairs up to Treppignana for their first public showing.

Martin Galloway and his wife Beryl were presented with a “golden handshake” for all their work on this project which has now arrived at the magical number of 100 chairs. These will all be in Barga during the first week of September listen to ‘Chairart treppignana’ on Audioboo Brief conversation with Martin Galloway at the […]

Chairart 2013 is all ready for the off – Martin Galloway has just sent out the following mail – The challenge for all artists from previous years [2010, 2011, 2012] is this year to complete a second chair. The date for submission of the finished chair [or photograph] will be the 1st of July. Please […]

Chairart 2012 opened to the public this afternoon with the ribbon being cut by the organiser of the event, Martin Galloway. The exhibition is being held in Palazzo Pancrazi and out in the piazza Salvo Salvi. Already before the opening their were many visitors intrigued to find out just why a full size skeleton was sitting inside […]